The secret Downing Street memo, July 23, 2002

The secret Downing Street memo, July 23, 2002, -- also known as the 'Smoking Gun' Memo -- regarding U.S. President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair's plans for war in Iraq, was revealed by the United Kingdom's The Sunday Times, May 1, 2005.

"It's possible it's less a dud than a bomb with a long, slow fuse," Dan Froomkin wrote May 17, 2005, in the Washington Post. [1]

Corroborating Documents from the National Security Archives

On August 17, 2005, "the National Security Archives at George Washington University released some stunning documents, that seem to further corroborate the Downing Street Minutes, as well as buttress the argument that there was precious little post-war planning in the rush to topple Saddam," according to Richard Cranium, AllSpinZone.

David Michael Green, "Stop the Crime of the Century,"Axis of Logic, May 15, 2005: "What has turned this crime into an astonishing demonstration of the depth of American democracy's decay is the complicity of the media establishment in hiding the original crime, and in thus doing so, ripping a gaping hole in the fabric of our political system."

Juan Cole, "The lies that led to war,"Salon, May 19, 2005: "A leaked British memo, and other documents, make it clear that Bush intended all along to invade Iraq -- and lied about it to the American people. The full gravity of his offense has not yet sunk in."